Management Issues

Posted: Thu 17 March, 2005 | Author: | Filed under: Work-related | 2 Comments »

I’m sure this will be of use to many people – The BBC’s guide on what to do with a useless manager. Considering that my current manager has just bought a “Mr T voice” keyring, with four of Mr. T.’s favourite phrases from the A-Team, I still think that a stun-gun is the best way of dealing with managers.

But there we go, personal opinions and all that toss.

T-mobile

Posted: Wed 16 March, 2005 | Author: | Filed under: Customer Services, Work-related | 5 Comments »

It’s one of those days.

I’ve just had my 25th call THIS WEEK from T-Mobiles representatives about business rates. My number is listed with Telephone Preference Service, yet it’s still being called.

After this amount of hassle, I believe I wouldn’t be unreasonable to take legal action against T-Mobile for harassment, as well as for lost time due to these calls. I wish to be contacted in writing within 48 hoursby a customer services manager who can confirm my details have been taken off all your calling lists, or this matter will be referred to my solicitor.

I would also like to point out that because of these continued calls, and the obvious total lack of competence, I wouldn’t touch T-Mobile with a turd-encrusted stick.

How much do we want to bet I won’t get any response?

Marmite

Posted: Wed 16 March, 2005 | Author: | Filed under: News, Weirdness | 2 Comments »

I have to say that I agree with Terreus when it comes to the story today about the Marmite “blob” advert being pulled from kid’s TV. A whole six – yeah, count ’em, SIX – people complained that this ad “terrified” their children.

Now OK, personally I can’t see the attraction in jumping into a blob of Marmite, but that’s because I think the stuff’s revolting. But terrifying? Get a fucking life.

Shameless

Posted: Wed 16 March, 2005 | Author: | Filed under: News, Reviews(ish) | 2 Comments »

It’s good to see that Shameless has won a hat-trick of awards yesterday at the Royal Television Society Awards. It’s creator, Paul Abbott, has been a major contributor to TV drama over the last few years, and deserves the recognition he’s finally getting.

A month ago, The Guardian had an interview with Abbott, which made for fascinating reading.

As for Shameless itself? Well, I’m looking forward to Series 3, having seen the finale of S2 a couple of weeks back. From the awards, it looks like it’ll be a certainty.

Nosmo King

Posted: Wed 16 March, 2005 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Health, Thoughts | 1 Comment »

Poo, I missed out on No Smoking Day. I saw a piece of guff about it yesterday, and was thinking “Oooh, nice title-bar image for d4d™, you know, one with loads of cigarette brands on it”. Maybe I’ll just leave it ’til next year – it gives me some time to knock the image together, anyway.

Twonk

Posted: Wed 16 March, 2005 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky | 3 Comments »

Over the last couple of months, my bandwidth useage has shot through the roof here at d4d™. So much so that I’m nearly at the point of having to pay for some of it. And it’s only just occurred to me why that’s happened.

The smart amongst you will already be saying “it’s because you’ve installed WordPress, you twunt“. And you’d be right. When I was posting through Blogger, all the admin stuff, editing, changing sections etc. was done through Blogger, and thus didn’t affect the bandwidth allocation of d4d™. Now though it’s all contained within the site, and it all comes out through that bandwidth allocation.

It’s no great problem, just something I hadn’t thought of, or realised.

Twunt.

Printable Version

Posted: Tue 15 March, 2005 | Author: | Filed under: Geeky | 4 Comments »

Well, sorting out that printer friendly css style turned out to be a total piece of piss.

And yes, Pix, there’s no fixed size on the text, should someone want to increase it at some point.

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